Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.419
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Dress, baby's. White cotton, long. Machine embroidered. Hamburg edging at neck, tucking and hamburg edging on bottom of sleeves. Tucking and hamburg inserts down front between two rows of hamburg ruffled edging. Wide hamburg ruffle at bottom. Buttoned all the way down back.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Provenance:
- Collected by the donor's sister, Marion L. Cass (1894-1963). Miss Cass developed the collection around a core of the personal possessions of her mother, Lillie M. (Wilson) Cass (1867-1951) and added objects passed down in neighboring Haverhill, NH, families. Later, while living and working in Littleton, NH, she devoted her spare time to expanding her collection, eventually representing over a century of changes in clothing and accessory styles.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Merwin P. Cass
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